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I am currently looking at 1 of these 2 routers.
Price is really a max of $100.
Looking at the Asus RT-N65R: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dual-band-wireless-n-gigabit-router-with-4-port-ethernet-switch/6639326.p?id=1218768195258&skuId=6639326&st=asus%20router&cp=1&lp=3
They have it on clearance for $71.
Or I am looking at the Netgear R6200: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dual-band-wireless-ac-gigabit-router-with-4-port-ethernet-switch/6226495.p?id=1218720727185&skuId=6226495&st=Netgear%20Router&cp=1&lp=6
Which is on clearence for $104
I have one laptop that has an Intel AC 7260 Wireless card. Everything else is Wireless N
My old router is a Belkin N600 and doesn't seem to like the Intel 7260 card much, is fully updated on firmware, though that is over a year old with no current updates.
Current network of devices are:
1 ipad 2
2 ipad minis
1 Android phone
1 Blackberry phone
2 iphones
5 laptops, 3 have dual band wireless n, not all are connect at the same time all the time, but this is just the max network load I can think of.
I read that the Asus has Dual CPU's one for the 2.4GHZ band, the other for the 5GHZ band.
My Belkin doesn't from what I can find, and it gets extremely hot now, so hot I have a table fan blowing on it to keep it cool. So if not one of the above what would you suggest for a $100 or under router that is reliable?
The bottleneck will be my internet connection. I don't do home network stuff, so no shared drives or such, plus if I read correctly both routers can do a share setup with a hard drive if need to.
I'm trying to see if the extra cost will really be worth the extra $30 when my old one was good enough. Just getting long in the tooth and reliability is dropping.
Max internet speed is 4MB/sec or about 34Mb/ sec and really anything that can reliably keep a 100Mb/ sec is good enough for me as I don't stream much.
Thanks for all the help.
Price is really a max of $100.
Looking at the Asus RT-N65R: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dual-band-wireless-n-gigabit-router-with-4-port-ethernet-switch/6639326.p?id=1218768195258&skuId=6639326&st=asus%20router&cp=1&lp=3
They have it on clearance for $71.
Or I am looking at the Netgear R6200: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dual-band-wireless-ac-gigabit-router-with-4-port-ethernet-switch/6226495.p?id=1218720727185&skuId=6226495&st=Netgear%20Router&cp=1&lp=6
Which is on clearence for $104
I have one laptop that has an Intel AC 7260 Wireless card. Everything else is Wireless N
My old router is a Belkin N600 and doesn't seem to like the Intel 7260 card much, is fully updated on firmware, though that is over a year old with no current updates.
Current network of devices are:
1 ipad 2
2 ipad minis
1 Android phone
1 Blackberry phone
2 iphones
5 laptops, 3 have dual band wireless n, not all are connect at the same time all the time, but this is just the max network load I can think of.
I read that the Asus has Dual CPU's one for the 2.4GHZ band, the other for the 5GHZ band.
My Belkin doesn't from what I can find, and it gets extremely hot now, so hot I have a table fan blowing on it to keep it cool. So if not one of the above what would you suggest for a $100 or under router that is reliable?
The bottleneck will be my internet connection. I don't do home network stuff, so no shared drives or such, plus if I read correctly both routers can do a share setup with a hard drive if need to.
I'm trying to see if the extra cost will really be worth the extra $30 when my old one was good enough. Just getting long in the tooth and reliability is dropping.
Max internet speed is 4MB/sec or about 34Mb/ sec and really anything that can reliably keep a 100Mb/ sec is good enough for me as I don't stream much.
Thanks for all the help.
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